Abstract: To provide a decorative film capable of applying a visual effect of making a pattern not visually recognizable, in a case where it is seen from the front, and making it visually recognizable, in a case where it is obliquely seen. a circular polarization plate including a linear polarization plate, and a laminate of a uniaxial retardation layer or a biaxial retardation layer; and a circularly polarized light reflection layer which reflects circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to that of light transmitted through the circular polarization plate in a vertical direction from the linear polarization plate side are included.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming method including a step of imagewisely applying, onto a base material by an inkjet method, at least two inks containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a chiral compound, and a polymerization initiator and having reflection wavelengths different from each other, such that the total application amount of the inks provides an image area ratio of 50% or more in an image forming region.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes a polymerizable liquid crystal compound of Formula (I) and a urethane (meth)acrylate monomer including a urethane bond and three or more (meth)acryloyl groups: Q1-Sp1A-Lm-1A-Sp2-Q2??(I) In Formula (I), A represents a cyclic divalent group (at least one is a divalent saturated hydrocarbon ring group), L preferably represents —C(?O)O— or —OC(?O)—, m represents 3 to 12, Sp1 and Sp2 preferably are alkylene, and any one of Q1 and Q2 represents a polymerizable group. A film including a layer obtained by curing the polymerizable composition; and a film adjacently including a layer obtained by curing the polymerizable composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (I) and a layer obtained by curing a composition including a urethane (meth)acrylate monomer and a manufacturing method thereof, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal film capable of producing a cholesteric liquid crystal film which is formed into a predetermined shape without cracks and exhibits a high modulus of elasticity. The method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal film according to the present invention includes step 1 of forming a coating film which includes a liquid crystal compound A having a first reactive group and a second reactive group that is different from the first reactive group or which includes a liquid crystal compound B having the first reactive group and a liquid crystal compound C having the second reactive group, step 2 of forming a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase in the coating film, step 3 of allowing the first reactive group to react to cure the coating film, step 4 of forming the coating film obtained in the step 3, and step 5 of allowing the second reactive group to react to produce a cholesteric liquid crystal film.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (I): Q1—Sp1—[A—L]—A—Sp2—Q2??(I) A represents a divalent nitrogen-containing saturated cyclic group (that may have a substituent) formed by removing two hydrogen atoms from piperidine or piperazine, a phenylene group that may have a substituent, or a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group that may have a substituent; L represents a linking group such as —C(?O)O— or —OC(?O)—; m represents 3 to 12; Sp1 and Sp2 represent an alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; any one of Q1 and Q2 represents a polymerizable group; and Formula (I) has a nitrogen-containing saturated cyclic group and a phenylene group that are directly bonded to each other via —C(?O)O—. By using a polymerizable composition including the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a film such as a retardation film can have low birefringence or a reflection film can have high selectivity in a reflection wavelength range.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging device that is inconspicuous from the outside, can easily apply design, and can obtain a clear image. The imaging device includes: an imaging unit that includes an image pickup element; a transflective film that includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and reflects a part of incident light; and a decorating member that is disposed on a side of the imaging unit where light is incident into the image pickup element, in which in a case where the decorating member is seen from a direction perpendicular to a surface of the image pickup element where light is incident, a through hole is formed at a position of the imaging unit, and the transflective film is disposed inside at least the through hole of the decorating member in case of being seen from the direction perpendicular to the surface of the image pickup element where light is incident.

Abstract: A transmission decorative film includes a circular polarization plate and a circular polarization reflection layer disposed on the circular polarization plate. The circular polarization reflection layer includes at least one or more first cholesteric liquid crystalline layers that reflect any one of left circularly polarized light or right circularly polarized light. The first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer includes two or more reflection regions having different selective reflection wavelengths. The circular polarization plate transmits circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to a revolution direction of the circularly polarized light reflected by the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer.

Abstract: A transfer sheet includes a cured liquid crystal composition layer, a block layer including a (meth)acrylic polymer, and a thermoplastic welded layer in this order, the thermoplastic welded layer and the block layer are in direct contact with each other, and the thermoplastic welded layer includes a thermoplastic resin and an ultraviolet curable resin.

Abstract: Provided is a half mirror which is used for a windshield constituting a head up display, and in which a feeling of glare is suppressed, and a boundary between a region which selectively reflects visible light and a region which reflects visible light is made inconspicuous. The half mirror has a reflection layer including a non-reflection region which does not reflect visible light, a reflection region which selectively reflects visible light, and a mixed region which is provided between the regions and in which a non-reflection portion which does not reflect visible light and a reflection portion which selectively reflects visible light are mixed, and in the mixed region, an area of the reflection portion is gradually increased from the non-reflection region toward the reflection region.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a reflective layer having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a wide reflection wavelength range. Another object of the present invention is to provide a reflective layer having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a wide reflection wavelength range.

Abstract: An infrared detecting semiconductor device comprises: an optical absorbing layer of type-II disposed between first conductivity-type and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers; and an optical filtering film of n-type InGaAs having an n-type dopant concentration larger than 8×1017 cm?3. The optical filtering film includes first to third semiconductor regions, which are sequentially arranged in a direction of a first axis on the optical filtering film. The first semiconductor region has an n-type dopant concentration of 2.0×1019 cm?3 or more. The third semiconductor region has a n-type concentration of 3.0×1018 cm?3 or less. The second semiconductor region has an n-type dopant profile monotonically changing from a first dopant concentration at a boundary between the first and second semiconductor regions to a second dopant concentration at a boundary between the second and third semiconductor regions. The first dopant concentration is greater than the second dopant concentration.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging device that is inconspicuous from the outside, can easily apply design, and can obtain a clear image, and a laminate. The imaging device includes: an imaging unit that includes an image pickup element; and a transflective film that is disposed on a side of the imaging unit where light is incident into the image pickup element and reflects a part of the incident light, in which the transflective film includes at least one of a cholesteric liquid crystal layer or a multi-layer polymer film, when seen from a direction perpendicular to a surface of the image pickup element where light is incident, a peripheral region surrounding the imaging unit satisfies L*?50 in a CIE-Lab (D50) color space, and when seen from the direction perpendicular to the surface of the image pickup element where light is incident, the transflective film is disposed to cover at least the imaging unit and the peripheral region.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a laminate, from which a decorative sheet having metallic gloss and depth of color or the like is obtained, and a decorative sheet and a molded article which use the laminate. The object is achieved by a laminate including a colored transmission layer, a reflection layer has wavelength selectivity in reflection, and an absorption layer in this order, in which the absorption layer absorbs light transmitted through the colored transmission layer, and the reflection layer has a region reflecting the light transmitted through the colored transmission layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission decorative film having transparency and capable of applying different visual effects on observation surfaces. The transmission decorative film includes: a linear polarization plate; a first ?/4 plate laminated on one main surface of the linear polarization plate; a first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer laminated on the first ?/4 plate; a second ?/4 plate laminated on the other main surface of the linear polarization plate; and a second cholesteric liquid crystalline layer laminated on the second ?/4 plate, in which the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer and the second cholesteric liquid crystalline layer respectively have wavelength selective reflectivity and reflect light which is right circularly polarized light or left circularly polarized light at a selective reflection wavelength.

Abstract: To provide a decorative film capable of applying a visual effect of making a pattern not visually recognizable, in a case where it is seen from the front, and making it visually recognizable, in a case where it is obliquely seen. a circular polarization plate including a linear polarization plate, and a laminate of a uniaxial retardation layer or a biaxial retardation layer; and a circularly polarized light reflection layer which reflects circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to that of light transmitted through the circular polarization plate in a vertical direction from the linear polarization plate side are included.

Abstract: A semiconductor light receiving device includes a supporting base having an n-type semiconductor region; and a photodiode structure disposed on the supporting base. The photodiode structure includes a barrier structure enabling an electron barrier, a light absorbing layer including III-V compound semiconductor, and a p-type semiconductor region. The III-V compound semiconductor of the light absorbing layer has a bandgap allowing the light absorbing layer to be sensitive to infrared light. The barrier structure includes a first spacer layer, a first barrier layer, and a second spacer layer, and the p-type semiconductor region, the light absorbing layer, the first spacer layer, the first barrier layer, the second spacer layer, and the n-type semiconductor region are sequentially arranged along a direction of a first axis.

Abstract: An infrared light-receiving device includes an optical absorption layer disposed on a principal surface of a substrate and an optical filter disposed on the optical absorption layer, the optical filter including first, second, and third semiconductor regions that are arranged in that order in a direction from the optical absorption layer to the optical filter, each of the first, second, and third semiconductor regions including an n-type InGaAs layer. The optical absorption layer includes a type-II superlattice structure. The first semiconductor region contains an n-type impurity with a concentration of 2.0×1019 cm?3 or more. The third semiconductor region contains an n-type impurity with a concentration of 3.0×1018 cm?3 or less and 8.0×1017 cm?3 or more. The second semiconductor region contains an n-type impurity with a concentration between the impurity concentration of the first semiconductor region and the impurity concentration of the third semiconductor region.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission decorative film capable of applying different visual effects on observation surfaces and a method of manufacturing the same. Provided is a transmission decorative film of the present invention including: a circular polarization plate; and a circular polarization reflection layer disposed on the circular polarization plate, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes at least one or more first cholesteric liquid crystalline layers that reflect any one of left circularly polarized light or right circularly polarized light, the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer includes two or more reflection regions having different selective reflection wavelengths, and the circular polarization plate transmits circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to a revolution direction of the circularly polarized light reflected by the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission decorative laminate including a cholesteric liquid crystalline layer and capable of applying different visual effects on observation surfaces, and a method of manufacturing the same. Another object of the present invention is to provide a glass base material with a transmission decorative laminate. Provided is a transmission decorative laminate including: a colored transparent base material; and a cholesteric liquid crystalline layer disposed on the base material, in which the cholesteric liquid crystalline layer includes two or more reflection regions having different selective reflection wavelengths, and the base material absorbs light at wavelengths which are the same as selective reflection wavelengths of two or more reflection regions.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission decorative film having transparency and capable of applying different visual effects on observation surfaces. The transmission decorative film includes: a linear polarization plate; a first ?/4 plate laminated on one main surface of the linear polarization plate; a first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer laminated on the first ?/4 plate; a second ?/4 plate laminated on the other main surface of the linear polarization plate; and a second cholesteric liquid crystalline layer laminated on the second ?/4 plate, in which the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer and the second cholesteric liquid crystalline layer respectively have wavelength selective reflectivity and reflect light which is right circularly polarized light or left circularly polarized light at a selective reflection wavelength.